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TIL Before the conflict in South Sudan, a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of sugar used to cost eight South Sudanese pounds. The price reached 400 South Sudanese pounds in 2018

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g0XA TIL George Smith (1840-76)(modest family, left school at 14) had a keen interest in Assyriology and was so often seen at the British Museum that he was employed as classifier. He taught himself Sumerian and literary Akkadian and became the one to discover the oldest story we have: Epic of Gilgamesh.
bOQQ TIL Dave Chappelle converted to Islam in 1998. He said, “I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing”
rNd4d TIL of Ken Forsse, an Disney Imagineer whose company Alchemy II was put in charge of the animatronics on the Disney Channel show the Welcome to Pooh Corner. Nearly broke, the company switched to toys using the animatronic technology used in Disney rides. The result? Teddy Ruxpin.
D169p TIL China recorded the second highest death toll during WWII, totaling 14 million casualties
XEEoR TIL that there is a faction of Jews that believe that Jesus is the Messiah.